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Erdoğan’s balancing act
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Once a kind of godsend in international politics, now much praised: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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In the wake of the Ukraine war, the Turkish president has Kurdish separatists bomb northern Iraq. He doesn’t have to fear criticism. Because the man who is good with both Moscow and Kyiv is needed – and courted.
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Tomas Avenarius, Istanbul
The brutality of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine obscures other international events. While Moscow’s major attack in the Donbass is only just beginning and President Vladimir Putin is again moving tens of thousands of soldiers, the Turkish army launched a new offensive against the Kurdish Workers’ Party PKK in northern Iraq on Monday, almost in the slipstream. As in previous years, Ankara’s air force attacked warehouses, tunnels and ammunition depots in the Kandil Mountains.
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